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SOOKESOOKE NEWS2010 WINNER

M I R R O R

Some old, some new elected to council

Kevin Pearson1,868

Bev Berger1,824

Rick Kasper1,735

Herb Haldane1,810

Maja Tait1,675

Kerrie Reay1,592

District of Sooke council will be on the same page

Pirjo RaitsSooke News Mirror

Wendal Milne is now Sooke’s new mayor. He topped the polls beat-

ing out former councillor Dave Bennett by almost three times the number of votes.

Speaking with Milne on Sunday, as he was taking down his elec-tion signs, he said it was a “really exciting election.” He was amazed at the level of support he received and he wondered, “can we live up to the expectation?”

He said he sensed the new coun-cil would wind up looking like they were all on the same page.

The change, he said, was all about trying to build trust in the district.

He said it got to the point where people didn’t trust council and battles were created over accusa-tions of hidden agendas.

He wants to keep taxes at near zero for a year or two and he has other initiatives he wants to imple-ment over time. He wants agen-das to be received by councillors earlier so they have the neces-sary time to read the material and make those important deci-sions. He wants more public input possibly at the Committee of the Whole meetings which too often went over the same material. He would like people to be able to come before council and talk to the issues and ask questions. He said a lot of people are expecting change and the votes reflect that.

“Voters are very perceptive,”

Milne said. “I’m really happy, it was a pretty sound majority.”

Milne gathered 2,571 votes to Bennett’s 931. Others joining

Milne at the council table are: Kevin Pearson, Bev Berger, Herb Haldance, Rick Kasper, Maja Tait and Kerrie Reay.

In the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Regional Director Mike Hicks managed to retain his seat against his opponent Alanda Carver.

Mike Hicks said he is “tickled” and he also liked the way the votes went in the district election.

“I’m happy with the outcome,” he said. “It’s back to business.”

He pointed to an interesting event back in 1984 when he was running federally for the Progres-sive Conservatives.

“Wendal bought my campaign bus,” said Hicks, “and he drove it across Canada.”

Hicks got 666 votes while Alanda Carver got 476.

“She is great,” said Hicks in ref-erence to Carver. “She almost gave me a whoopin’. It was a tough,

respectful campaign and I wish her all the best.”

Land Use Committee results: East Sooke Kara Middleton; Otter Point Heather Phillips; Port Ren-frew John Wells; Shirley/Jordan River Harold Shipton; Willis Point Art Wynans. Otter Point Advisory Committee members elected are: Al Wickheim, Bud Gibbons, Sandy Sinclair, Sid Jorna, Anne Miller.

School District 62 results brings back Margot Swinburnson, 2,320 votes, along with Neil Poirier, 1,983, and Bob Phillips, 1,688, who topped the polls for Milne’s Land-ing beating out Allison Watson, 1,501, Terrance Martin, 1,463 and Janet Evans with 1,302 votes.

The District of Sooke had approximately 8,400 eligible vot-ers and 3,525 of them came out to the polls to vote, representing almost 42 per cent.

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The campaign signs are down, the ballots are counted and the District of Sooke’s new council is coming down off their high. Each of the candidates expressed their thoughts on the election.

In alphabetical order:Sheila Beech - “Con-

gratulations to the new mayor and council. It has been a pleasuere to work with this past council, we worked hard together and with staff to accomplish many worthwhile proj-ects for the citizens of Sooke. I leave council proud of what we have done.”

Dave Bennett — “I would like to obvi-ously thank my elec-tion team because they worked very hard for me over the past two months and they strongly endorsed my candidacy and I would urge Mr. Milne to focus on the positive for our community and to reach out to the almost six out of 10 people that did not vote and I just want to thank the people of Sooke for the opportunity and privi-lege to have served on council.

I was confident (going into the race) — I door knocked on, I would say, 85 to 90 per cent of Sooke residents and the reception I received was very positive. And I guess it was a surprise, but I congratulate Mr. Milne on his election.”

Bev Berger — “I’m extremely pelased witrh the results, I think we got a council that is like-minded and has genu-ine care and concern for our community, I’m looking forward to the next three years.”

“Moonfist”Myke Col-bert - “Congratulations Mayor Milne, Council-lors Haldane, Berger,

Pearson, Kasper, Tait and Reay. Thank you for all for your efforts and welcome to office. Unite and be strong, as what you have now become is respon-sible for the District of Sooke. We are all on a journey some-where and as always... together. Journey well, may wholesome things unite you.”

Ron Dumont — “Of course I’m disap-pointed. I’m happy we are leaving the district in a good and sound financial manner, posi-tive and sustainable for the future. The good staff will continue to work hard for the coun-cil. The fire dpeartment is well trained and the envy of fure depart-ments on Vancouver Island. I wish the new council good luck, it’s easy to make promises, harder to make them happen.”

Herb Haldane — “I’m glad the whole insanity is over, it was not a nice election. I’ve lived in Sooke my whole life and am sat-isfied with what I’m doing and I do what people want. I’m elated by the people who got

elected. We need lead-ership everywhere. It’ll be real interesting.”

Rick Kasper — “The voters have spoken loud and clear, as I’ve said in the past, they are always right.” I thank the members of council who didn’t get re-elected, it does take a toll. I want to thank them person-ally for their service, I know what it’s like, I’ve been there. I also want to thank Janet Evans, they’ve all put in a lot of work.”

Terrance Martin — “I’m very happy with the outcome. I made the

best possible attempt to get a seat. I will carry on with life. I’m satis-fied, the people asked to see a change.”

Jim Mitchell — “I think the council that has just been elected will be good for Sooke and they will be able to bring back some confi-dence in our local gov-ernment. I offer them all my congratulations on running a good, clean campaign and I wish them all well. I would also like to give all of my supporters a big thank you. I believe that we were able to give the residents of

Sooke something to think about during this election.”

Kevin Pearson — “I was pleasantly sur-prised by receiving the largest number of votes. I’m happy that the Sooke Electoral Dis-trict has put confidence in me to go ahead and I think I’m going to bring some energy and some positiveness to the council so I’m looking forward to the chal-lenge ahead. I thought I would be in the mix for being a councillor, although I was never really sure. I’m excited and nervous (heading into my first council meeting).”

Kerrie Reay — “It’s exciting, it’s a little overwhelming at the same time but I think, and I had mentioned elsewhere, that you have a right to run for council, but it’s really a privilege when the community puts you in a position to serve that community. And so I’m quite honoured to have that and I think it’s important that I make sure that I live up to my responsibilities, which I’ll do... and it’s great to get that sixth seat.”

Shaunna Salsman — “I would like to thank the residents of Sooke for the great conver-sations, warmth, and openness during this

municipal election. My hope was that mean-ingful conversations about our municipal government and our community would be achieved. I hope that people feel their con-cerns and ideas were heard and understood. To those elected, I trust they will continue to use our community as a valuable resource to set priorities and make the municipal govern-ment’s connection to the community stron-ger. Keep sharing the stories of Sooke’s com-munity spirit and it’s beautiful natural sur-roundings, these con-nect us all.

Maja Tait — “I’m excited about it, I’m looking forward to get-ting to know the new councillors and our new mayor of course. It was a clear message there is some dissatisfaction, perhaps, with different things and I think the other candidates and Wendal were very clear on what they wanted (to) set out (to do) and voters are in agree-ance. They’re in agree-ment and they came out strong — it was very clear and decisive in terms of something council needs to focus on. I’m looking forward to a break for a bit, a week off, refocus.”

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And the winners are: left to right Kevin Pearson, Maja Tait, Herb Haldane. Bev Berger, Wendal Milne and Rick Kasper. Kerrie Reay was missed in the photo, although she was there earlier.

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Mirror incorrectly named Dr. Pocock in the last edition of the paper, as well as a typo incorrectly spelled Herb Haldane’s name wrong.

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a little more than a month away, the Sooke Region Chamber of Commerce elves have been extremely busy assisting Santa in prep-aration of our annual events.

The Sooke Family Resource Society is hosting our Novem-ber Mixer on Tuesday, Nov. 29 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at 2145 Townsend Road. We look forward to seeing you there!

The annual Sail Past takes place Thursday, Dec. 1 commencing at 6 p.m. at the Rotary Pier. Drop boxes for the food bank will be placed

along the boardwalk for food donations. Join us as we start the weekend of HOLIDAY celebrations. Many local businesses will be staying open late Fri-day, Dec. 2 for our first annual shop late night. Support our local busi-nesses - Look for spe-cials and discounts and great gift giving ideas ~ SHOP local it makes cents!

We continue the weekend with the fes-tive spirit and anticipate the arrival of Santa on Sunday, Dec. 4 with our annual Santa Parade. Come and enjoy hot chocolate, treats, and

many businesses and organizations who will be participating in the parade.

Continuing on with the Holiday Spirit, mem-bers of our chamber have joined together to participate in the Festival of Trees being held at SEAPARC and the Prestige Hotel. The chamber is also com-peting in the Ric’s Grill Gingerbread House Competition. We hope you will support our efforts and vote for your favourite tree and gingerbread house.

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Our AGM is sched-uled for Dec. 6, at the Prestige Oceanfront Hotel from 12 - 2 p.m. We hope to see new members, and new faces.

Our final mixer of 2011 will be held at Sooke Ocean Resort/Sushi ON the Sea Thurs-day, Dec. 15 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Meet your new board of directors and executive. Who knows, Santa just might make an appearance.

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Journey Middle School students and staff worked together for the past two weeks to collect 84 shoe boxes gifts for kids who live in extreme poverty in Central and South America. Mrs. Lennox’s grade 8 students, who presented and encouraged the entire school to take part in this project, themselves each brought in one or more shoe box gifts, filled with school supplies and personal hygiene items so that the kids in these countries will have a chance to attend a school.This is Journey’s 13th year of participating in Operation Shoe Box.

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The last council meet-ing with the current members took place on Nov. 14. Much of the agenda consisted of wrapping up business before the new council takes their seats at the inaugural meeting on Dec. 5.

DelegationsSooke Region

ResourcesMarlene Barry came

before council and spoke about a website created to showcase Sooke’s resources. Sooke Region Resources is designed to be a comprehensive inventory of programs, services and informa-tion for the communi-ties from Beecher Bay to Port Renfrew. The site links community members, both new and longstanding, with the information they need, whether it be recreation and leisure, employment and educa-tion, or health care and social services. Upcom-ing events, volunteer opportunities, feature organizations and a cal-endar of events are all a part of the site.

“We officially have a virtual volunteer cen-tre,” said Barry.

The initial funding came from the Van-couver Island Health Authority to the Sooke Community Health Ini-tiative (CHI) and fund-ing now comes from a line item in the District of Sooke’s annual com-munity grants budget.

The site can be found at: www.sookeregionre-sources.com.

Taking it to the Streets Report

Evonne Black out-lined the work done by

the Sooke Region Cul-tural Plan Committee over the past year. The Cultural Plan proposes the creation of a Cul-tural Planning Advisory Committee to guide the plan into the future. See story on page A13. Bylaws

The outgoing council adopted the following bylaws:

Bylaw No. 500, Sooke Zoning Bylaw, 2011; Bylaw NO. 501, Zoning Amendment Bylaw for 6553 Helgesen Road; Bylaw No 502, 6553 Helgesen Road Phased Development Agree-ment Authorization Bylaw, 2011; Bylaw No. 5012, Sooke Core Sewer Specifies Area Amend-ment Bylaw.

Council also adopted Bylaw No. 508. Records Management Bylaw, No. 509, Sooke Core Sewer Specified Area Amend-ment Bylaw for Wright Road and No. 510 Grant Road West.

Secondary and Small Suites Policy

Council adopted Pol-icy No. 8.8, Secondary and Small Suites Policy, 2011. Opposed were Councillors Herb Hal-dane and Bev Berger. Councillors Dave Ben-nett, Sheila Beech, Ron Dumont and Maja Tait voted in favour. Bev Berger said the policy could make hundreds of families homeless if non-conforming suites were not up to code.

“We are essentially evicting quite a few families, if we follow the policy we have no choice but to evict because of the zoning,” said Berger.

Planner Gerard LeB-lanc said that enforce-

ment action would take place if suites were illegal. He said it was a health and safety vio-lation and the district could be liable if the suites were allowed.

“If illegal we will enforce,” said LeBlanc.

An authorized suite is a suite that has received a valid certifi-cate of occupancy from the district or it prede-cessors. An authorized suite must be a permit-ted use under the cur-rent zoning bylaws.

Development Cost Charges

A report was received by council on a review of current Develop-ment Cost Charges. The district collects DCCs to help fund road and wastewater infrastruc-ture. The review was needed to ensure that the bylaw accurately reflects the current PCP’s growth estimates and new infrastructure plans. A recent change in provincial legislation gives municipalities the option to waive or reduce DCCs for certain types of development.

The district currently reduces DCCs for devel-opment in the Sooke Revitalization Area.

The proposed DCC rates, with the excep-tion of commercials, are higher than the current DCC rates. The proposed total DCC rates will increase by approximately two per cent for single family homes and townhouses and 0.4 per cent for apartment units. The proposed DCC for com-mercial will decease by approximately three per cent.

Urban Systems, the

consultant who pre-pared the report, rec-ommends the proposed DCC rates be taken to a public open house.

Sooke Fire Rescue Service Quarterly Report

The quarterly report showed a shortage of volunteer firefighters to respond to daytime call outs. The depart-ment currently has five full-time staff, 30 volun-teer firefighters and five recruits in training and another five in the pub-lic education division, to total 45 members.

In the six months from January to Sep-tember 2011 the depart-ment responded to 669 incidents. Of these, two were structure fires; 12 chimney fires; 10 appli-ance fires; 22 brush fires. The highest call outs, 64, were to alarm bells, and motor vehi-cle incidents, 53. First responder calls totaled 309.

On a bright note, fuel consumption is down 50 per cent due to the new pick up vehicles.

Grant applicationThe district will be

submitting a grant application to the B.C. Community Recreation Program for the Phillips Road connector multi-use trails. The trail will connect SEAPARC to Journey Middle School/Poirier Elementary School to the larger trail network.

Road and Sidewalk Improvement Pro-

gramJasmine’s Excavat-

ing was awarded the construction contract worth $41,949.60, to design and construct the Townsend Road/Hwy. 14 intersection upgrade. The cur-rent crosswalk will be moved to the other side of the intersection and will be unlit. Townsend Road will become right in and right out.

Capital City Paving was awarded a con-tract, not to exceed $150,000, to mill and pave Maple Avenue S.

Notice of MotionCoun. Herb Haldane

did not get the required votes to take another look at the Delegation of Purchasing Power bylaw which gives the CAO authority to expend funds up to $75,000 without council approval. Only Coun. Berger voted with Hal-dane to look at the bylaw.

Mayor Janet Evans stated they had given staff the budget to spend in the perim-eters allocated and it gives staff the authority to do their day-to-day work.

Coun. Bennett stated it was not their job to micro-manage staff.

The next regular council meeting will take place at the inau-gural meeting of coun-cil on Dec. 5.

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Between Nov. 10 and Nov. 17 there were 101 calls for service.

Nov. 11 — There was a break and enter reported at DeMamiel Creek Golf Course just after 11:10 a.m. The sliding glass door of the trailer office was smashed and RCMP suspect the alarm scared off the perpetra-tor. It is unknown what was taken.

Later that night at 9 p.m. a 61-year-old Sooke resident was driving eastbound on the 5500 block of Sooke Rd. by Harbourview Rd. when suddenly his driver’s side window shattered sending glass every-where, said RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve Wright.

“At first he thought he’d been shot,” said Wright.

It turned out to be a rock, about the size of a small potato, that someone had thrown through the window hitting the driver on the shoulder “quite hard.”

“He was able to pull over and stop without causing any accident but it could have been quite serious if he’d been actually struck in the head.”

Police are discount-ing the possibility of the rock being kicked up by another vehicle because the driver said he was alone on the road at the time, and are looking for wit-

nesses or even the sus-pect to come forward.

“(We want to know) if it was meant as a prank and there was no intention to hurt someone because we don’t want to think there’s someone going around throwing rocks through windows,” said Wright, who added it’s the first such case he’s seen since he’s been in Sooke.

Nov. 14 — Vandalism was reported at Ayre Manor at 6764 Ayre Rd. A fence and some lights were smashed on the property with damage totalling approximately $2,400. RCMP are look-ing for anyone that may have information regarding the incident.

At approximately 6 p.m., a 17-year-old boy getting off the public bus at Sooke Road and Phillips Road was hurt after he was assaulted by a man trying to rob him.

The boy boarded the bus in downtown Vic-toria and during the ride he took out his

Apple iPad to listen to music. After getting off the bus, the suspect fol-lowed him as he walked up Phillips Road and ran around the boy and blocked his way. The suspect, wearing a Halloween hockey mask, took out a pink or red collapsible baton like those commonly used by police and demanded the boy’s iPad.

The boy refused, and the suspect swung the baton hitting the boy’s arm after he raised it to shield his head. The suspect then pushed the mask off his face and again asked for the iPad several times. The boy continued to refuse, trying to flag down passing cars for help but none stopped. The suspect threat-ened the boy one more time before running away back towards Sooke Road, possibly scared off by activity at the nearby Sooke Flats campground, said Wright.

Police were noti-fied after the boy went

to the clinic to have his arm looked at. He described the suspect as a slim white man around six-feet tall between the ages of 18 to 20 with short brown hair and acne around his eyes and on his nose. He was wearing a black or dark hoodie with a red design on the chest .

The investigation is ongoing.

There has also been a 2004 red Ford 3/4-ton pickup truck reported stolen, B.C. license plate number 2842LM. If spotted please con-tact the Sooke RCMP at 250-642-5241.

November 14-20, 2011. There were 94 calls to service.

Sooke RCMP have been receiving several fraud complaints, many of which target seniors. One consists of a per-son calling a residence claiming to be a relative in dire need of money and requests funds be wired to them. Another fraud entails a caller (many traced to India, 91 area code) claiming to be from Microsoft and a virus was detected in the victim’s home com-puter. The caller asks to be allowed remote access to the computer and then instructs the victim to pay them via wire transfer at Money Mart or Western Union.

Some potential vic-tims have thwarted the fraud by asking questions and deny-ing the requests for money. Unfortunately, many have fallen vic-tim to these scams, trusting the caller and subsequently losing a

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Police wish to remind people to trust their instincts, ask questions and when in doubt hang up and report the incident to police.

Sometime between

Nov. 11 to 13, some lights and fencing at Ayre Manor were dam-aged. Anyone with information about this mischief can call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or www.

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Theft from vehicles were reported in 6800 block West Coast Rd. and Driftwood Dr.

A residence was bro-ken into on Throup Rd., the vehicle stolen from the driveway. West-shore RCMP located the vehicle later that day being driven by 25-year-old Wesley Switzer who has been charged with possession of stolen property, theft, danger-ous driving, breach of

probation and resisting arrest.

Roadblocks were conducted in various locations throughout Sooke and Jordan River. Violations included: unsafe windshield, no valid driver’s licence and possession of mari-hjuana. Four three- day immediate road-side prohibitions were issued.

RCMP are pleased to report no motor vehi-cle collisions despite the snow and icy roads this past week.

Ten subjects were

checked to ensure com-pliance with curfew conditions. One was found in violation of the curfew and charges are being forwarded to Crown counsel.

Sometime between Nov. 1 to 10, a gray 9.8 hp Nissan kicker was stolen from a boat parked on a trailer at Becher Bay Marina.

Nov. 20 at 03:30 a.m., Sooke Petrocan was broken into wherein a window was smashed and several items were taken from inside.

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EDITORIAL Rod Sluggett PublisherPirjo Raits EditorBenjamin Yong Reporter

The Sooke News Mirror is published every Wednesday by Black Press Ltd. | 112--6660 Sooke Road, Sooke, B.C. V9Z 0A5 | Phone: 250-642-5752 WEB: WWW.SOOKENEWSMIRROR.COM

For the past few years online readers have been able to comment

on stories, letters and opinions through the Disgus platform on the Sooke News Mirror’s web page. While we have enjoyed reading the opinions and the back and forth comments, it has led to some pretty nasty comments being posted. People tend to get more personal and mean-spirited when they don’t have to give their name. Thus the change. The Sooke News Mirror has always had a lively Letters to the Editor page and we hope this will continue to be the platform where you have your say. It’s what most Sooke people read in the paper as shown by the monitoring done by our web people. In fact, Sooke has one of the most involved and spirited communities on Southern Vancouver Island. It means we care and want to speak out.

BCLocalNews.com and the Sooke News Mirror is joining the trend away from anonymous comments on our site. Dec. 1, we switch to Facebook’s Commenting platform.

For the last few years, as BCLocalNews.com and our family of websites have garnered more attention, some

readers have raised concerns about one issue in particular - the fact we allow visitors to post anonymous comments.

The policy has led to some unpleasant and mean-spirited postings. It’s also raised an inconsistency in our Black Press brand. Our community newspapers don’t print anonymous letters, yet we’ve allowed our websites to become a place where people can hide their identity while occasionally taking shots at one another.

Starting Dec. 1, that policy will change.

People will only be able to comment by using their Facebook account, which means their name, often even their photograph, will be linked to the statements they post.

BCLocalNews.,com is not alone in making this shift. Several media companies, equally troubled by the vitriolic trend of anonymous comments, are turning to Facebook to power their website commenting.

All of Black Press in B.C., Alberta and Washington State have made the switch. Our sister publications have continued to see spirited discourse among those who post comments, yet the

discourse is at a much higher level, and commentators are generally well-mannered and on-topic.

This new approach won’t be perfect. People without a Facebook account won’t be able to participate in online discussions.

Still, we’re enthused to be in the vanguard of this movement. It shows we’re listening to our readers and responding. It places us more deeply into the powerful world of social media: by using Facebook Comments, we’re embracing a social medium with 800 million users worldwide.

For those of you who choose not to create a Facebook account, remember we will continue to run letters to the editor in print - you can submit them to: editor@ sookenewsmirror.com or deliver by hand or mail to the Sooke News Mirror office. So please continue to be a part of the discussion. Your comments are part of an important dialogue that enlivens and enriches civic life in our communities.

We attempted to answer most common questions on our Frequently Asked Questions page. Go to: www.bclocalnews.com.

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OUR VIEW

Change is what people were wanting and change is what they got after the polls closed last Saturday. The in-fighting and bad feelings took a toll on everyone, the public included.

The buzz words in a lot of municipalities were transparency and openness and now Sooke has a fresh new opportunity to get with the program. The new mayor has talked about initiating a public question and answer period that is a little longer than the two-minute maximum they had, and that would be a good thing. People want to

be able to ask questions about items coming before council, plans in the works and financial decisions. That’s what open, honest and transparent government is all about. No closed door meetings, no behind the

scenes maneuvering and no secrets. Council is working for the people of Sooke, the CAO’s employer is the mayor and the staff employer is the CAO. No one should be a lone wolf. This is where problems arose during the last three years.

It’s time to start fresh and carry on with the business of running a community.

Thanks have to go out to the councillors and mayor who were not re-elected. They served the community in the best way they knew how and they deserve credit for their efforts. Janet Evans put in 12 years and saw the municipality go through its growing pains. This new council will have an easier time than the councils that have gone before.

We have a rich and varied community with strong opinions and the need to be heard. Let’s hope the election promises can be kept and we can begin to function in a strong and forthright manner.

It’s time to start fresh and carry on...

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Go localResponse to the let-

ter ‘Do it for the Kids’, Nov. 9.

I wanted to respond in support of busi-nesses in this com-munity. I know the letter-writer was dis-appointed by the lack of involvement by one or more businesses in Sooke on Halloween night; for a perceived absence or gradual fad-ing from celebrations, and I wanted to make a couple of suggestions.

I would first suggest, before pulling support from any Sooke busi-ness (big or small) for lack of visibility in your chosen event/charity fundraiser/sports team, please, please walk through their doors and ask them how they are helping. I think you may be surprised at the length and diversity of the response.

I’m a volunteer fund-raiser with for Cops for Cancer, I chair the BC Children’s Hospital com-mittee here in Sooke, I’ve helped organize the Starlight Cinema in sup-port of local families, and quite a few other events and I’ve noticed that the ability to make donations of products, money and services are challenging for many businesses during this economically difficult time. While I am still in awe of the generos-ity we are shown, I’m learning to reduce my expectations in accor-dance with the times.

Finally, I would like to suggest shopping locally this holiday sea-son.

Emma IrwinSooke

Extinguish the HST

I ask your assistance in requesting that Cana-da’s Minister of Finance, the Honourable Jim Fla-herty, accept this pro-posal:

Canada should con-tinue to collect both the PST and GST on the 80 per cent of goods and services to which PST applied before HST was implemented, and remit the PST portion to B.C. All of the job-creators in the 80 per cent component will thus continue to avoid the administrative duplication and cost of having to keep two sets of books for PST and GST. They also will avoid the cost of chang-ing their computer sys-tems back, estimated at $1,200.00 per business average, for Small Busi-nesses.

Canada loses noth-ing; B.C. does not col-lect PST on the 20 per cent, either way.

Canada will keep our (former) tax collectors on the payroll.

There will be no need for Canada to require collection of the $1.6 billion incentive pay-ment from B.C.

This idea has been presented to Mr. Fla-herty by both the Honourable Kevin Fal-con, B.C.’s Minister of Finance, and by the B.C. Caucus of the Conser-vative Party of Canada.

Presently, his concern is that Canada does not want to deal with the hassles of exemptions

and appeals on the PST; one cannot fault him for that! However, he can delegate administra-tion of those to B.C. we would have to handle them anyway, if collect-ing PST on our own.

Minister Falcon has advised me that he will be pleased to take this approach, if Canada will agree.

Please write to Mr. Flaherty at: jim.fla-herty@parl.gc.ca if you support this approach.

Kevin KruegerMLA, Kamloops-

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Not all inclusive

The thing that irri-tates me the most about Shirley is the way some residents refer to the population in Shirley as “we in Shirley” and “the community in Shir-ley” when all of us here are perfectly aware that they are talking about a particular group.

Pretending that the rest of us in Shirley are an un-named, vague, non-entity bunch who need to be led by a self-elected elite, who will act as spokespersons, decision makers, and, in the case of Marine Trail Holdings, rabble rousers for us serfs and peasants.

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Parking issues need to be

addressedFor the second time

in the past few weeks, I attended a trade show at the Prestige Hotel and was lucky enough to find a parking spot, the first time in the underground parking lot (30+ spots) and on Saturday on the side-walk, yes the sidewalk of our public boat launch land; lots of cars were lined up on busy West Coast Road. The hotel was booked with a girls’ hockey tourna-ment. The development permit that the hotel received allowed them to build a 122 rooms hotel plus a 300 capac-ity conference centre, restaurant (how many seats open to outside guests?), two small eateries, fitness center, swimming pool and spa. Let’s not add up how many customers they may have at one point but it is more than the 101 parking stalls they were required to pro-vide. I also asked myself where is the staff park-ing? Do the math, it will never work.

What really irritates me was that everyone was using the “public boat launch reserved parking stalls.” (By the way, I think six stalls are supposed to be reserved for the emer-gency rescue boats and Coast Guard) of course; so fishing boat own-ers I recommend that you always check if the hotel has a conference going or if they are fully booked, as you may never be able to launch

your boat and park your trailer in parking stalls that belong to all of us taxpayers.

Do you think that I am bitter because as the owner of Sooke Harbour House, a 280-room hotel without a conference centre, I was required to have 77 parking stalls and rezone a residential property and turn it into a parking lot that is mostly empty or used by people going on a stroll to Whiffen Spit park, not my guests. No, I have always tried to have more hotels in Sooke, it is better for my business, just look at Tofino – how many hotels, resorts, B&Bs do you think they have? It makes a lot of sense to offer more alternatives to guests wanting to visit our beautiful area.

I am upset because rules were not fol-lowed and now, we the taxpayers, are going to have to suffer the consequences. I think the hotel should be required to own a big shuttle bus and find a place in Sooke where people can park their cars and be shuttled, and that a towing com-pany be asked to come regularly and tow away any car parked illegally on our public boat launch parking stalls or maybe I should offer my parking lot to the Prestige Hotel.

Frederique PhilipCo-owner,

Sooke Harbour House

LETTERS

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Are you happy or surprised about the election ?

We’re got a new mayor, so I’m happy.

Janice HIll

I didn’t vote. I’m still trying to learn more, I just moved to the province on Oct. 13.

Joan Turner

No, (it’s not a surprise), I felt Mr. Milne had quite a

following.

Alex Wright

(I’m not surprised). The peo-ple I voted for all got in.

John Hill

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SELLING SOOKE SINCE 1985

The heart of Sooke

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who made the bottle drive, put on by a group of Sooke Coop Preschool parents and teacher Angie.

The drive was a fund-raiser in support of a former preschool fam-ily’s new baby, Maysa, who is battling with a recent diagnosis of Cys-tic Fibrosis.

The event showed us the true heart of this amazing commu-nity including the local convenience store, Winks, saving up their bottles for the cause. The RCMP dropped off their bottles, the Sooke Minor Hockey team cancelled their bottle drive scheduled for the same day in sup-port of our cause, and SEAPARC for providing their parking lot and road sign. Family after family brought their children by with cash and bottle donations and a special, generous donation of the bottles collected by our resi-dent bottle collector, whom we all see daily collecting bottles with his can on wheels.

In four short hours we raised over $850 for the Milligan family to help with travel and medial expenses.Thank you Sooke!

For more information go to: http://www.cys-ticfibrosisvictoria.ca/

Darcy SmithSooke

Dealing with bears

I moved to Saseenos in June of this year and couldn’t fig-ure out why my gar-bage can outside was knocked over and the bags ripped open and dragged around my property almost every night. It got to be such a nuisance cleaning it up all the time. Believe me I tried many things to prevent this: bungy cording the bin to the fence, but he sqeezed his arm in and pulled out garbage; wrapped heavy duty chain to hold the lid tightly to the bin and locked it, but the darned bear knocked the bin over and squished it and clawed the bags out and continued to spread the garbage around.

Then came the idea to have some-one build a “box” around the bin. It has a roof, one side has a door with heavy duty hinges and a strong sliding lock so the bear can’t open it, and the bottom has a slope so Sooke disposal can roll

the bin out. Know what? Since

I’ve had the box, no bear, no garbage mess, no bear poo! It’s wonderful! Just thought I’d pass this on to those whom I’ve been read-ing about who are hav-ing the same problem I was.

Kristina Van der WereldSooke

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HOWARD ELDER – 1934 - 2011

A love of the forestsand an appreciation of the great outdoorswere paramount in the life of Howard Elder, sometimes called Sooke’s “Elder States-man,” dead at 77. He flourished as a grand-son of Camp Boss Ed Elder, kingpin of the area’s forest industry in the 1930s and 1940s.Howard grew up with his roots firmly set in a logging camp, attending the one-room school atcamp, then moving on to Milne’s Landing HighSchool. Grandfather Ed and his dad Dal Elderinstilled in him the high expectations of his fam-ily.

Elder Logging oper-ated for 30 years west of Sooke, chiefly in the Muir and Tugwell water-sheds. Ed Elder with his sons Max and Dal ran the camp at top produc-tion. Max’s son Jack was the bookkeeper. Theywere known to reward a good day’s cut with a trip to the Sooke River Hotel. Elders’ well-mus-cled and skilled loggers earned quite a reputa-tion.

In this period when All Sooke Day was in its heyday, the tug-of-war team competitions were a main attraction of the day, with the win-ning pullers heralded as local heroes. Photo-graphs show the beam-ing faces of the husky loggers who worked for Elders, the All Sooke Day Cup proudly dis-played, with little How-ard as mascot, tucked within the burly arms of the fallers. As the area’s major employers, the family gave gener-ous support to various sports teams, in partic-ular the area’s softball teams that won several provincial champion-ships.

After graduation from Milne’s Landing High School in a class of 10 in 1952, Howard earned a degree in Engineering

at UBC, and married his high school sweet-heart, Carol Chivers, who had graduated as an RN. Within a few years he was Manager of CANFOR’s Engle-wood division based at Woss Lake, one of the largest logging opera-tion in the province at the time. This was a unique opportunity to work with a privateindustrial logging rail-

way, and he was able to use some of the loggingtechniques and man-agement skills learned in the family business. He was instrumental in saving the old-growth Douglas fir forest at Schoen Lake in the North Island.

As the two Elder youngsters, daughterKymn and son Nyle grew to school age, Howard and Carol decided to

move back to the home in Saseenos where thechildren could attend a local school. Switchingto private consulting, Howard undertook sev-eral engineering con-tracts for Reid Collins;in particular he was involved with the logtransportation aspects for a large hydro-elec-tric project near Revel-stoke.

In 1966, after the creation of the Capi-tal Regional District, Howard Elder wasapproached by John Ede Martin, Sooke ElectoralArea’s first Regional Director, and asked toallow his name to stand as director. Thus beganHoward’s long political tenure. During his timein office, the first con-trols on local land usewere formulated. He established the Sooke Electoral Area Parks and Recreation Com-mission, paving the way for a referendum to construct the Sooke Arena. He was on theCapital Regional Board when the 1,435 ha. EastSooke Park was estab-lished in 1970.

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tion as an innovative engineer had begunto circulate around the province. He wasapproached by Rudy Johnson, a cattlerancher whose spread on the west side of theFraser River near Wil-liams Lake was con-nected only by the

Soda Creek ferry to the stock yards at WilliamsLake.

In 1968 Rudy Johnsonpurchased a redundant bridge in Alaska, dis-mantled and shipped the 3,000 pieces tohis ranch, where he planned to restructure it across the Fraser

River. Howard agreed to team up with him totackle the unique chal-lenge. Now 89, Rudyrecalls that Ministry of Transportation officialssaid the job could not be done. He recalls thatHoward would not take

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Sadly, our Chamber of Commerce office and information cen-tre closed at the end of September, one month early, as we ran out of funds.

We enjoyed a fantas-tic five months which saw hundreds of tour-ists come through our doors.

If it wasn’t for the Ancient Alliance fund raiser, membership dues and donations by very generous individu-als, we could not have had the opportunity to achieve what we did. So thank you to every-one who supported us then and continue to do so.

Our Chamber of Commerce is still up and running, but unless a miracle happens and money falls from the sky, we will not be able to reopen another info

centre next year.However, plans are

in the works to adver-tise our businesses and assist our visitors in the up and coming season, so stay tuned.

Our Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the sec-ond annual Christmas Craft Fair to be held at the Port Renfrew Rec-reation Centre on Dec. 3 and 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTSooke Philharmonic: Notes from the insideT

he conduc-tor is the most important per-

son in the concert, and yet he doesn’t make a sound.

He stands with his back to the audience, moves his arms, flicks his wrists and wag-gles his baton, which is nothing more magi-cal than a small white stick.

Unless you’ve played in an orchestra, you may be a little hazy about what Norman Nelson, our esteemed conductor, is actually doing.

First of all, he engi-neers a clean start and finish. This is not as easy as it sounds. Anyone who has par-ticipated in a sport or dance performance where starting together matters, knows that it can go completely wrong. Then, Norman decides how fast the piece should go. Dif-

ferent musicians have different ideas and – maybe more impor-tant -- different sets of notes on different instruments seem to naturally play them-selves faster or slower. The orchestra has to be together, though, or it’s an almighty mess.

Watch the conductor is the first thing a musi-cian learns when he or she starts playing in an orchestra.

But the player has to look at his music too: it would be too difficult to memorize. So he puts music and conduc-tor in the same sight-line, and with that, also stays aware of what the people around him are doing. Ears are also good for that.

Then, of course, the conductor “interprets” the music: he or she tells the musical story in his own way. Think of a song that’s been covered many times.

My Way, for instance. It can be done innumer-able ways, and there’s always one more pos-sibility.

So Norman sets to work. Most of the work he does with the orchestra takes place in rehearsal. If you have been to an SPO

rehearsal, you know that the orchestra sel-dom plays more than a few bars before Nor-man stops, with some remark. “Louder!” he will say to the timpani. “Break the skins, I’ll pay for the damage!” Or to the strings, “Quiet! Less, less, don’t play

at all.” He shows the string players (usually with his baton on his left arm) where on the bow to play something, and how – off the string or on, a long sweep or a little peck. “Menacing,” he will say. Or “Tom and Jerry.”

This is what Nor-man Nelson is particu-larly good at – reach-ing in and finding the details that will shape the sound so that the music will come to life in the most exciting, moving way.

In the concert, when our Maestro is stand-ing with his back to the audience, this is what he is doing. He starts the orchestra off together, sets the tempo, and helps solo instruments or sections come in when they have an important entrance. He is also reminding the musicians how he wants something played. “Hit those

drums!” “Shshsh!”When he is conduct-

ing, his face, his arms, every part of him reflects what he wants, and he doesn’t have to say a thing. The musi-cians read him along with their parts, and the music happens.

Here is a trivia ques-tion:

How long has Nor-man Nelson conducted the Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra?

Send your answers to sookephilharmonic@gmail.com. We’ll draw from the correct answers and award a SPO scarf to the lucky winner!

Check us out at www.sookephil.ca.

Did you know? At the age of 20, Norman Nel-son began playing in the first violin section of the London Philhar-monic Orchestra.

Contributed by Sonia de Wit

Season’s GreetingsSooke Philharmonic

Chamber Players with the Sooke Philhar-monic Chorus perform on Saturday, Dec. 3 and Dec. 4.

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Taking it to the streets: Cultural planningPirjo RaitsSooke News Mirror

After a year of meet-ings, discussions and focus on the

arts and cultural aspects of Sooke the Sooke Region Cultural Plan has been com-pleted.

It is hoped the cultural plan will serve as a starting point for discussion around developing a healthy arts community for the Sooke region.

Evonne Black, who served as project coordinator along with Sarah Temple, said the plan is intended to identify five key strategies that can be implemented over the next five years.

At a wrap-up meeting on Nov. 15, volunteers and member of the public came together to discuss where to go from here. Twenty-seven people from all sectors of the community openly dis-cussed the completed plan and the steps required to go forward.

“One year ago we started to say, ‘what are we sitting around the table trying to do?’’ said Black. “It was to create a five-year planning document that includes representatives from all sec-tors.”

The working group con-sisted of 37 people repre-senting 42 different orga-nizations, service groups,

individual artists and busi-nesses. Eight meetings were held plus a one-day Cultural Summit on Oct. 22. Fund-ing came from a collabora-tion between the District of Sooke, Juan de Fuca Eco-nomic Development, Sooke Community Arts Coun-cil, Sooke Region Tourism Assoc., and the Sooke Fine Arts Society. A monetary grant was received from 2010 Legacies Now and Cre-ative City Network of Can-ada.

The cultural plan was a direct result of ArtsWave, a series of surveys, inter-views and public consulta-tions to provide a perspec-

tive on the strengths and challenges for the arts in the region.

At the Nov. 15 meeting, Black outlined the next steps.

The first crucial step is to create a Cultural Planning Advisory Committee (CPAC) by amalgamating with the Sooke Program of the Arts Committee and to explore additional partnerships. This would be an umbrella organization representing all sectors of arts and cul-ture in Sooke and the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area.

The CPAC would then approach local and provin-cial governments for funding

to carry out the plan and to perhaps create a staff posi-tion with civic administra-tion to provide leadership, coordination and collabora-tive working relationships for the arts sector. The posi-tion could be shared with the Sooke Regional Tourism Association and the Sooke Economic Development Committee.

“Coordination cannot continue to be done by vol-unteers,” said Black.

Other priorities would be to revamp the commu-nity grant review panel and review its policies and crite-ria. Hosting an annual cul-tural summit to foster com-

munity partnerships is also a priority as is seeking out grant opportunities that would provide funding for the administration of build-ing a collaborative approach to developing a vibrant arts and cultural sector. A volun-teer centre was also listed as something important.

To increase knowledge and interest in the arts, cul-tural and heritage resources there was talk of developing an electronic newsletter to serve as a central hub for information.

Lee Boyko, executive director for the Sooke Region Museum, said it was necessary for organization

to talk to each other.“The infrastructure is

already in place,” he said. Coordinating marketing

and promotion campaigns was a high priority as well as producing cooperative advertising materials suit-able for hotels, B&Bs and vacation rentals.

Another direction would be to encourage event orga-nizers to partner with com-munity arts, cultural and heritage organizations in the planning process as well as joint marketing.

“We have lots to celebrate here,” said Black.

Mentoring opportunities with artists within school programs was another of the strategic directions out-lined in the cultural plan. Opportunities for youth to exhibit and perform at events within the region was a high priority as was developing a youth-friendly media source for communi-cation.

Coordinating with First Nations bands in arts, cul-tural and heritage festivals and events was seen as an important facet of the plan.

For now, a slight reor-ganization within a swiftly formed ad hoc Cultural Planning Advisory Commit-tee, will assess the best way to move forward to start implementing the priorities outlined in the plan.

Pirjo Raits photo

Representatives from all sectors of art and culture came together to disuss common goals.

Submitted photo

Maestro Norman Nelson

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Benjamin YongSooke News Mirror

On Saturday morn-ing, a hundred volun-teers with hammers and nails in hand filed into Camp Barnard for some serious roofing.

They will be outfit-ting 22 sleeping cabins, a barn, two shelters and the boathouse with all new metal roofs.

“About two years ago, we saw that the need was coming at us to get all these roofs

done. They were all (originally) built about the same time in the early 90s,” said Grace Seabrook, Camp Bar-nard Committee chair-woman. She added a couple of roofs have already been converted thanks to trees falling on top of them.

The project was intended to be an expensive long term project taking place over four or five years, but chance has changed all that.

“We had this Latter-day Saints group that

wanted to do this huge camp for their kids who are in scouting,” she said.

The group of 600 kids wanted to do a week-long stay in August that would have cost $15,000. The organizers from the church, some of whom just happened to be professional roof-ers, asked if there were any other services they could provide instead for payment. Seabrook and the rest of the committee leapt at the opportunity.

“It’s so serendipitous sometimes the things that happen at Camp Barnard.”

The church reached out to its congregation and rounded up 50 to 60 contractors and roof-ers by trade to help. Being in the business, the tradesmen are also bringing tools and all the required materials that they were able to secure at half the reg-ular cost from a Main-land contractor.

“They figure they can do all they set out to do in one day.”

In return, the volun-teers are fed and the kids can stay at no extra charge.

To pay for everything, Camp Barnard reached out to the community.

“We applied to the Sooke Community Fund — we asked them for $2,000 and they ended up giving us almost $7,000 last spring which was great,” said Seabrook.

The Victoria Rotary

club donated another $2,000, and the Shawni-gan Lake Knights of Columbus gave $7,500. She said the organizer of the Knights also look

after another group that have stayed at Camp Barnard for the last 15 to 20 summers.

“It’s a pretty highly developed camp so maintenance is never far from the top of the list,” she said.

“To get this many of those kinds of big jobs done in one fell swoop is very significant.”

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Camp Barnard gets upgrades thanks to church groupBenjamin Yong photo

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any money for super-vising the engineering, structuring the 300 foot high rebuilt truss span across the river, but would only accept the hospitality of the ranch for visits with his family. The Rudy John-son bridge became the only private toll bridge across the Fraser, and was incorporated into the provincial high-ways system 13 years later. Unique in the endeavour was his use of logging technology and a skyline system to sling the truss across the river.

After his fourth two-year term as regional director, he retired at the end of 1973. After that time, though no longer in an official capacity, he wielded a significant influence on the inner workings of the community, and was influential in the terms of most regional directors who came after him. During those years, Howard contrib-uted his assistance to the Sooke Community Association, in par-ticular with surveying work, and also con-tributed efforts to the Sooke Region Museum.

John Arnett, onetime publisher and editor

of the Sooke Mirror, recalls Howard with these words, “A master politician who shunned the limelight – and the ultimate insider in Sooke politics for many years.”

Howard kept busy with various engineer-ing projects and travel-ling with Carol as they found out-of-the way places to visit. He partic-ularly enjoyed exploring old ruins and observ-ing their engineering techniques. A great believer in undisturbed land, Howard continued to enjoy hiking nature trails. He and Carol particularly looked for-ward to their visits with their grandchildren until poor health began to rob him of the vital-ity and strength he had enjoyed.

Howard Elder passed away on Nov. 10. Pre-deceased by his sis-ter JoAnn Lajeunesse in 2000, he leaves his wife Carol, daughter Kymn (Ray Robazza) of Campbell River, son Nyle (Marilyn) and grandchildren Brook, Rance, Teal and Ryan and niece Carrie and nephew Jay. No public service is planned at this time.

Elida PeersHistorian, Sooke Region Museum

Howard ElderCont’d from page 11

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Lesley Griffith and Dawna Bright, left, man the TOPS booth, while Katya Silverster,7, shows off trinkets she got at the All Sooke Arts & Crafts Fair held on the weekend.

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Clarinet and strings work debutSooke Philharmonic players take lead in performance Pirjo RaitsSooke News Mirror

Like a painter with a pallet Mark Forna-

taro colours his world but he uses the bright notes of sound rather than paint.

Fornataro is a Vic-toria-based composer who will debut his composition, Quartet for Clarinet and Strings, on Sunday, Nov. 27. He has enlisted the help of some musical friends, members of the Sooke Philharmonic Orches-tra. Principal clarinet-ist for the orchestra Lawrence delaHaye will perform with string players Anne McDou-gall, violin and Sooke Philharmonic concert

master; Sue Innes, vio-lin, Trevor McHattie, cello; and Lee Ander-son, viola.

Fornataro doesn’t play a musical instru-ment himself at this

time, he’s too busy and says he doesn’t have time to practice. Music has been his passion for a long time and he has dedicated this piece to his sister, who is mar-

ried to delaHaye.The music itself was

initially written for bas-soon and perfectly fits the plaintive sound of the piece. Fornataro switched to clarinet because of the charac-ter and versatility of the clarinet.

“I’m using this amaz-ing music software,” says Fornataro. “What you have is a virtual orchestra, you can play it back and see if it works.”

The music to be per-formed will be a Sta-mitz clarinet quartet, Fornataro’s eight-and-a-half minute Quartet for Clarinet and Sting and a Haydn string quartet. Following an intermis-sion Mozart’s clarinet quintet will be per-formed.

The performance takes place at Holy Trinity Church at 2 p.m., Nov. 27.

Tickets will be avail-able at the door.

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Composer Mark Fornataro will be debuting his composition for clarinet and strings.

Well-known artist Sue Coleman has created a print which will be sold to help raise funds for The Land Conservan-cy’s portion of the cost of purchasing Sandcut Beach.

Coleman spent many years driving along the West Coast explor-ing the many beaches north of Sooke. With the paving of the Pacific Marine Circle Route she has returned many times to visit the wild side of the Island.

This past spring she did a piece to promote Sansum Point between Vancouver Island and Saltspring Island. In three months she was able to raise $15,000 for the TLC. She then decided to look closer at using her art to help such causes.

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Roberts, Donald L. Passed away Saturday, November 12, 2011, peacefully at Victoria, BC in Hospice, Donnie goes to join his best friend and companion, Nic, who he missed everyday. Donnie is survived by family and friends, here and throughout BC and the United States. Always a smile, helping hand, advice or a chat, Donnie was a familiar sight in Sooke with his hat, sunglasses and dog Nicholas by his side. Most recently after the loss of Nic, he relocated to Langford, where he was secure in his own home, with friends close by. Thank you to everyone, who made his life better by being part of it. There will be no formal service, please remember Don in your own way. Safe journey, dear friend, safe journey. Give Nic a hug from us.

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Laura lost a long and val-iant battle against ar-thritis and more recently cancer. It is with great sadness that we an-nounce the passing of our much loved mother of eight, grandmother of 15, great grandmother of 23 and great-great grandmother of two. Lau-ra will be sadly missed by her: daughters Eileen Kristiansen, Anne Lloyd and Lenda Bourque; and sons Davis Bourque, Paul Bourque, Robert Bourque and Wayne Bourque. She was sur-vived by her sister Theresa Boucher and other family in New Brunswick and Quebec. She was predeceased by her daughter Pauline Wakefi eld in 1988 and her granddaughter Lisa Drinkwalter in 2007. Born in Tracadie, New Bruns-wick, her life was dedi-cated to her family when she lived in New Bruns-wick, northern Ontario and Sooke, British Co-lumbia. Our family would like to thank Dr. Vally and staff, the Red Cross, Sooke Hospice and es-pecially the Beacon home care workers whom over the past years provided her with support and tender care. Our Mom will be sadly missed, but we know she has gone to a better place and has found the peace she so much de-served. A memorial tea will be held at her home in Sooke on November 26th at 4:00 pm.

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On Nov. 14, 2011, Dis-trict of Sooke Council adopted Bylaw No. 500, Sooke Zoning Bylaw, 2011.

This bylaw replaces Bylaw No. 270, Sooke Zoning Bylaw, 2006 and is the result of extensive public consultation and

positive direction from Council.

The District of Sooke began its review of the Sooke Zoning Bylaw in late 2010. Coun-cil was looking for a user-friendly, innova-tive zoning bylaw that meets the needs of the

community’s vision, as contained in the newly adopted Official Com-munity Plan and in other recent plans and studies.

For more complete information please visit the website www.sooke.ca to download

the new bylaw, maps and background infor-mation or contact:

District of Sooke Planning Department tel: (250) 642-1634, email: info@sooke.ca, fax: (250) 642-0541

District of Sooke adopts new Zoning Bylaw

Pirjo RaitsSooke News Mirror

When Elizabeth Mar-tin received a phone call from her distressedgranddaughter, she did what any grand-mother would do - she responded with love,assurance and cash.

What she didn’t knowwas that she and her husband Vernon were the victims of a widely-used scam, the grand-paren t /emergency scam, which has sweptacross North America. Martin is lucky, shewas taken for close to $1,000, others havebeen fleeced for a lot more than that.

The caller, suppos-edly her granddaughter, called to say she was in Montreal at a weddingand after an altercation on the street defendingherself she was accused by witnesses as being the aggressor. She said she was in jail and the tears flowed convinc-ing Nana and Pop of thedire circumstances.

“I would swear it washer voice,” said Martin, “it was so like her.”

Martin said the caller used their pet names,

Nana and Pop. “That’s what all our grandchil-dren call us.”

The “granddaughter”begged them not to tell her parents and likemost loving grandpar-ents, they agreed.

The “lawyer” called and started out askingfor $500 which would get the granddaughterout of jail and prevent a criminal record. Eliza-beth and Vernon raced to get the money sent out by Western Union but it was Remem-brance Day and the local outlet was closed,as was the Money Mart in Langford. The “law-yer” kept calling ask-ing when they would

send the money to the address he provided inMontreal. Finally they could send the money, which was by now up to $990. The moneywas supposed to be for a flight home.

After sending the money they waiteduntil they could call the parents who said theirgranddaughter was at home in bed and had been all weekend. Then they knew the whole thing was an elaborate scam and they’d beenhad.

“We felt like stupidold people,” said Eliza-beth, “but our grand-daughter said, ‘they’re smart.’”

This particular scam has resurfaced after lay-ing still for about a year. It was being used on a number of older folks in Sidney. The Martinsdo not use computers so it is unlikely infor-mation was obtained from them but with the new technology like Facebook, Twitter andothers, it is easier for scammers to get infor-mation. Typically the call goes something likethis:

Con-artist: Hi,

Grandma/Grandpa Vic-tim: Hi. Con-artist: Doyou know who this is? Victim: John? Con-artist: Yeah.

Recently scammershave also been using compromised con-tact lists from hijacked email accounts andpotential victims are sent “urgent” requestsfor money from a friend or relative with whom they have a correspon-dence. The friend or relative is unaware that their account has beenused to send out these requests for money. They almost always use Western Union as there are outlets in most cit-ies in the world.

So, if you get a call from someone claim-ing to be a relative in distress, ask key ques-tions only your relative would know and makephone calls before you send any money. The scammers rely on the soft hearts and big wal-lets of grandparents.

“It’s not our rent orgrocery money,” said Elizabeth in referenceto the money they lost, “but others might run around trying to find it.” Lesson learned.

Pirjo Raits photo

Elizabeth Martin got taken in by a scam.

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Current projects around town•

Thurlburn, David, Robert

Passed away in Pennsyvannia at the age of 61. He was born in Victoria October 12, 1950 and passed away November 20, 2011. He leaves behind his two children David Michael Thurlborn, Angela Christine Thurlburn, their mother Linnea Adela. Thurlburn and many g r a n d c h i l d r e n . People can reach Linnea at 778-425-2561 or cell 250-661-9312.

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Accepting bribes deemed okay

Pirjo RaitsSooke News Mirror

For three years orga-nizations and busi-nesses in Sooke have letcreativity reign as they pulled out all stops todecorate a faux fir for the Festival of Trees.

The annual event is a fundraiser for the BCChildren’s Hospital.

“The incredible care given to children and young adults in our community by BC Chil-dren’s Hospital would not be possible without the support of the com-munities they serve,” says Emma Irwin, chairfor Sooke Community for Kids.

She said 199 chil-dren from Sooke were treated by the hospital last year alone.

Participants will start trimming their trees at around 4 p.m. on Nov. 29 at SEAPARC and the Prestige Hotel.

A group of judges will work their way through the trees starting at SEAPARC and ending at Prestige. Prizes will begiven for first, second and third Overall Best Decorated Tree based on overall presenta-tion, level of creativity and bribes. Each judge is prepared to accept a bribe which can be slipped to them dur-ing their rounds. Bonus points are added to the entry depending on the value of the bribes.

Bribe money can be gathered ahead of time at the office, business or store and slipped to a judge on judgement day.

Presentation of the prizes takes place at 6 p.m. at the Prestige.

From Nov. 29 to Jan. 5, the people get to vote for their favourite tree. Vote and donate (sug-gested $2) to a good cause.

For more information contact Irwin at: sooke-festivaloftrees.com, 250-642-0588 or 250-514-1710 (cell).

Let’s make good things happen Sooke!

Festival of Trees in two venues this year

Michelle, LPN

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What’s Up in SookeWhat’s Up in Sooke This WeekThis WeekWed.Wed.November 23November 23TOASTMASTERSTOASTMASTERS

Sooke Harbour Sooke Harbour Toastmasters meet and Toastmasters meet and greet night at Village greet night at Village Foods from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Foods from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Call Allan at 642-7520 Call Allan at 642-7520 with any questions.with any questions.

PARENTS AND TOTSPARENTS AND TOTS

Drop-in at the Sooke Drop-in at the Sooke Family Resource Society Family Resource Society for parents and tots. for parents and tots. An opportunity to play An opportunity to play and learn with your and learn with your child — enjoy art stories, child — enjoy art stories, activities and circle time. activities and circle time. Meet other parents Meet other parents and children in your and children in your community, from 9:30 community, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. by donation. to 11 a.m. by donation. Snacks provided.Snacks provided.

Thurs.Thurs.November 24November 24

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Join Karen at Peoples Join Karen at Peoples Drug Mart for seniors day Drug Mart for seniors day every second Thursday every second Thursday of the month. There’s of the month. There’s coffee, cake, prizes, and coffee, cake, prizes, and a chance to catch up with a chance to catch up with your friends. There is also your friends. There is also a 15 per cent discount on a 15 per cent discount on most products today. most products today.

SKATE-A-THONSKATE-A-THON

Fundraiser put on by Fundraiser put on by the Sooke Skating Club the Sooke Skating Club in support of Canadian in support of Canadian not-for-profi t organizaiton not-for-profi t organizaiton KidSport. Drop by KidSport. Drop by SEAPARC and pledge SEAPARC and pledge a donation to a skaters a donation to a skaters doing laps around the doing laps around the rink starting at 5:45 p.m.rink starting at 5:45 p.m.

Fri.Fri.November 25November 25VITAL VITTLESVITAL VITTLES

Free lunch every Friday Free lunch every Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Holy Trinity Hall on at the Holy Trinity Hall on Murray Road. Everyone Murray Road. Everyone is welcome.is welcome.

PRO-D DAYPRO-D DAY

Drivers and cyclists Drivers and cyclists should be weary of kids should be weary of kids out and about in Sooke out and about in Sooke today, Sooke Elementary today, Sooke Elementary is having a professional is having a professional development day for development day for staff so no school for the staff so no school for the youngsters. youngsters.

Mon.Mon.November 28November 28

EUCHRE NIGHTEUCHRE NIGHT

Starts at 7 p.m. sharp at Starts at 7 p.m. sharp at Sooke LegionSooke Legion

Sun.Sun.November 27November 27

OPEN MIC NIGHTOPEN MIC NIGHTDrop by the 17 Mile Drop by the 17 Mile House Pub and catch a House Pub and catch a musical act or two during musical act or two during their weekly open mic their weekly open mic night. Open until 11 p.m. night. Open until 11 p.m.

CONCERTCONCERTArs Nova String Quartet Ars Nova String Quartet with Lawrence de la with Lawrence de la Haye (clarinet) will be Haye (clarinet) will be performing at the Holy performing at the Holy Trinity Church at 1962 Trinity Church at 1962 Murray Road at 2:30 Murray Road at 2:30 p.m. Tickets at the door: p.m. Tickets at the door: $12.50 or $20 a couple.$12.50 or $20 a couple.

Tues.Tues.November 29November 29

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At Harbour Medical Clinic At Harbour Medical Clinic from 4 to 7 p.m. For more from 4 to 7 p.m. For more info call 250+642-4233.info call 250+642-4233.

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The VIHA Sooke Health The VIHA Sooke Health Unit is featuring a Unit is featuring a presentation on water presentation on water safety from 10 to 11:30 safety from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the SEAPARC a.m. at the SEAPARC Leisure Centre on Leisure Centre on Phillips Road this week. Phillips Road this week. Call 250-642-5464 with Call 250-642-5464 with any questions.any questions.

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CHRISTMAS BAZAARCHRISTMAS BAZAAR

At the St. Rose of Lima At the St. Rose of Lima Parish Hall at 6221 Parish Hall at 6221 Sooke Rd. Featuring Sooke Rd. Featuring quilts, seasonal crafts quilts, seasonal crafts and baking, it takes and baking, it takes place from 9 a.m to 3 place from 9 a.m to 3 p.m. There will also be p.m. There will also be door prizes, raffl e draws door prizes, raffl e draws and refreshments will and refreshments will be served. For more be served. For more information contact Rita information contact Rita at 250-642-3945. at 250-642-3945.

A24 • FISHING www.sookenewsmirror.com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011 - SOOKE NEWS MIRROR

Weather per-mitting fish-ing for win-

ter chinook off Sooke has been good. Fish inthe six to eight pound range have beenreported off the Sooke Bluffs and the trailerpark area towards Otter Point.

Anglers last weekwho braved cold weather

were rewarded with steady action. Mostly using hotchies fishing close to the bottom for best results. Anglers are starting to use the boat ramp. They love the ramp but were a little

concerned with parking. One guy said he was out a couple of weekends ago, launching the boat was good but when he was leaving all the boat ramp parking was used up by the people attend-ing the craft fair. There were cars parked on both sides all the way

up to the road. Nice to see fellow fishing guide/ regional director Mike Hicks get ree-elected as CRD director. I’m sure he will be cruising the high seas again this sum-mer out at the Swiftsure Bank.

Keep your rod tip up!Kiwi Magic

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The last 40-pound weight was caught in late September off Otter Point by Eagle-Eye Charters.

Hopefully we will see lots of these big ones in the 2012 fishingseason.

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Best fi shing time: 1½ hours after high tide.

TIMES ARE IN STANDARD TIME, HEIGHTS IN FEET

Day Time HT Time HT Time HT Time HT23 00:51 7.2 04:04 6.6 10:56 10.5 19:04 1.624 01:55 7.5 04:43 7.2 11:31 10.8 19:51 1.025 02:51 7.9 05:25 7.2 12:09 11.2 20:37 0.7 26 03:41 7.9 06:09 7.5 12:50 10.8 21:22 1.0 27 04:30 8.2 06:53 7.5 13:31 10.5 22:50 1.6 28 05:17 8.2 07:40 7.9 14:13 9.8 22:50 1.629 06:05 8.2 10:44 7.9 14:55 9.2 23:31 2.630 06:53 8.5 12:14 7.5 15:40 8.5

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